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2nd LD: Xi, Moon talk about bilateral ties, Korean Peninsula issues over phone

Xinhua,May 05, 2018 Adjust font size:

BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in talked about bilateral ties and peace development on the Korean Peninsula during a phone talk on Friday.

Xi said China pays great attention to bilateral relations and is willing to enhance communication with South Korea, deepen pragmatic cooperation, and promote cultural exchanges so as to steadily move bilateral relations forward in the common interest of both sides.

Xi pointed out that the relations between the two countries maintain a good momentum of development, and consensuses of the two leaders have been gradually implemented.

Moon said he is delighted at the implementation of those consensuses and South Korea is committed to pushing forward continuous development of bilateral strategic cooperative partnership.

South Korea hopes to maintain high-level exchanges with China on the situation of the Korean Peninsula as well as other major international issues, said Moon.

Moon briefed to Xi achievements of the recent inter-Korean summit.

Moon said that the successful summit has reached broad consensuses on improving the inter-Korean relations, promoting the denuclearization of the Peninsula and establishing a peace mechanism, during which the two sides jointly published the Panmunjom Declaration.

According to Moon, South Korea appreciated China's important role in promoting positive changes of the situation of the Korean Peninsula, thanked China for its firmly support for dialogues between the south and north sides as well as its contribution to pushing settlement of issues through dialogues and negotiations.

Xi pointed out that the recent historic meeting between President Moon and Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has achieved important results in improving the relationship between the two sides, defusing tensions and buliding durable peace in the Korean Peninsula, and that China thinks highly of the great efforts by South Korea and the DPRK. Enditem

 

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